Evaluation of changes in sympathetic nerve activity and heart rate in essential hypertensive patients induced by amlodipine and nifedipine

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 111-118

  Hamada, Toshihiro ^a,b   Watanabe, Masashi ^a   Kaneda, Takafumi ^a   Ohtahara, Akira ^a   Kinugawa, Toru ^a   Hisatome, Ichiro ^a   Fujimoto, Yukihiro ^a   Yoshida, Akio ^a   Shigemasa, Chiaki ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; Ambulatory electrocardiography; Amlodipine; Heart rate power spectral analysis; Nifedipine

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; CATECHOLAMINE; NIFEDIPINE; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CATECHOLAMINE URINE LEVEL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; NORADRENALIN URINE LEVEL; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RR INTERVAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SLOW RELEASE FORMULATION;

EID: 0031941183     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004872-199816010-00016     Document Type: Article

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